Cory Doctorow
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| Full Name: | Cory Doctorow |
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| Born: | July 17, 1971 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Occupation: | Writer, Blogger and Journalist |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
Biography
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing, and a contributor to Wired, Popular Science, Make, the New York Times, and many other newspapers, magazines and websites. He was formerly Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.
His novels are published by Tor Books and simultaneously released on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their re-use and sharing, a move that increases his sales by enlisting his readers to help promote his work. He has won the Locus and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His latest novel, New York Times Bestseller Little Brother, was published in May, and his latest short story collection is Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present. A collection of his essays, called Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (with an introduction by John Perry Barlow) will be published later this year by Tachyon Books. Also due in 2008 is a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction, coming from IDW, called Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now.
He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, sold to OpenText, Inc in 2003, and presently serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the MetaBrainz Foundation, Technorati, Inc, Stikkit, the Organization for Transformative Works, Areae, the Annenberg Center for the Study of Online Communities, and Onion Networks, Inc.
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly called him, "The William Gibson of his generation." He was also named one of Forbes Magazine's 2007 Web Celebrities, and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders for 2007.
He is presently working on narrative documentary films with Kirby Dick (This Film is Not Yet Rated) and Philippe Parreno (Zidane), and on a new young adult novel, For the Win (about union organizing in video games).
On February 3, 2008, he became a father. The little girl is called Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, and is a marvel that puts all the works of technology and artifice to shame.
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- Oh! Sweet Nuthin': Cory Doctorow | Stanford Daily
Sweet Nuthin': Cory Doctorow. Thursday, July 29th, 2010 | By Roseann Cima. A new website has gone viral. It's called “I write like,” and you can find it at http://iwl.me. Enter any text and it tells you which, of the works of 50 famous ... - Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)
I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them. Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from ... - Inception's musical secret - Boing Boing
Video • Features • Bazaar · Archives • Reviews • Submit · Inception's musical secret · Cory Doctorow at 9:23 PM Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010. Inception is one of the two best science fiction movies I've ..... Cory Doctorow · David Pescovitz ... - Putting people first » Cory Doctorow on curated computing
Cory Doctorow, the Canadian blogger, journalist and science-fiction author, argues in The Guardian that curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade. Although bespoke computing experiences promise a pipe dream of ... - The Investigative Author » Blog Archive » Episode 7: A ...
Episode 7: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow and China Miéville. Posted by Tom on Jul 29, 2010 in Podcast |. Subscribe. I had the privilege to attend this fantastic event organised by Pete (http://twitter.com/booksellerpete) at ... - ** Canadians: One month left to pick your favorite YA book! [ Cory ...
?Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · This page in English · This page in Spanish · This page in German. Relevant Tags. month · isbn · left · canadian · novels · pick · favorite · Business Broadband · Conference Venues · House Music ... - Canadians: One month left to pick your favorite YA book! - Boing Boing
Canadian-born author Cory Doctorow takes his favourite pastime and online expertise up a notch in this action packed science fiction novel. In a virtual future where multiplayer online gaming has real world effects, 15-year-old Mala ... - On Peter Watts's sentencing hearing - Boing Boing
Cory Doctorow at 3:24 PM Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010. Madeline Ashby, Dr Peter Watt's friend (and mine) has written a beautiful piece on Tor.com about Peter's sentencing hearing: "This is a love story. This is the story of one man who had no ... - Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the ...
When I woke this morning at 5AM UK time, I discovered an in-box full of emails from people asking if I knew what was going on with Amazon. My books -- and all books from Macmillan and its many divisions, including Tor, my publisher ... - PalmAddicts: Free Download of Cory Doctorow's New Book
[From Stan Medina, OH] Hi Sammy, Just wanted to drop you a quick note and tell you how much I appreciate your efforts in keeping the website up and running. As always, I enjoy visiting the site at least once...
